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Subject(s)

• Terrorism—Philosophy [Browse]
• Political crimes and offenses [Browse]

Series

Political Violence [More in this series]

Summary note

The central focus of this book is a small but vitally important group of movements that constitute a distinct 'fifth wave' of modern terrorism, here called the ""New Tribalism"". Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism examines a collection of terrorist or insurgent movements whose similarity in tactics, strategic vision and desire to radically reshape their worlds to conform with a 'Golden Age' dream of perfection which is to be achieved through a genocidal or ethnic cleansing process to make way for the emergence of a new, radically perfected tribal utopia in a singl

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I Theory; 1 Terrorism and religious violence; 2 Rapoport's Four Waves theory (revisited and ever- so-slightly revised); 3 The Fifth Wave: The new tribalism?; Part II Praxis; 4 The Lord's Resistance Army; 5 Sudan and the Janjaweed; 6 Conclusion: The Fifth Wave?; Notes; Index

ISBN

• 1-135-15775-8
• 1-135-15776-6
• 1-282-57138-9
• 9786612571381
• 0-203-85752-6
• 9780203857526

OCLC

• 609973305
• 609417395

Doi

10.4324/9780203857526

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